Dozier Bell

Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions

2010  Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2009  Navigator Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2010, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2002  Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2009, 2006, 2004   DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2005, 2001, 1999  Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
2004  University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2004  Aether  National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2003  Meditations of Spirit  The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2003  A.V.C. Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2000, 1998  June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
2000, 1997, 1995, 1992, 1990, 1988  Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1998  Dozier Bell: Primary Themes  Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT (catalog)
1995  The Dissonant Heart  (photography, in collaboration with the poet Wesley McNair)
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)
1994  Original Place: Recent Work by Dozier Bell and Ken Greenleaf 
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, and Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (catalog)
1991  Dozier Bell: Horizons and Beyond  Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
1991  Bingham-Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1989  Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1987  O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010  Sacred and Profane Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, NH
2009  Selections from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art  Portsmouth Atheneum, Portsmouth, NH
2009  Portland Museum of Art Biennial   Portland, ME
2008  Art from Anxious Times  Art Students League, New York, NY
2008  Transcendental and Sublime   Gallery of Contemporary Art
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2008  Silence   La Galeria, Consell de Cent, Barcelona
2008  Midnight Full of Stars  Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2008  Works on Paper  Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2007  New Artists  Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2007  Introductions II   Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2006  The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985-2005
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2006  Maine Menagerie   Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2005  The Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood Straub Collection
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
2004  Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape   Lehman Gallery, Bronx, NY
2003-2004  Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2002  Prelude to an Apocalypse   Art Gallery of the University of New England, Westbrook, ME
2002  From Nature   AVC Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2002  Past, Present, Future: 50th Anniversary Exhibition Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2002  Keenly Observed   Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2001-2002  Re-Presenting Representation V   Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2000  Photographing Maine: 1850-2000  Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
1999  Different Strokes   The Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1998  After Nature   The Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (catalog)
1998  Seasons of Change: Maine Women Artists and Nature   In conjunction with the American Women
Nature Writers Conference at the Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Portland, ME
1997  Invitational Exhibition   Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1996/97  Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the 90's
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (catalog)
1996  Torn Asunder: Collage in Twentieth-Century Art   Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1996  Inside/Outside: Recent Photography from the MacDowell Colony Hood Museum of Art,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and the Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1996  Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalog)
1996  Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy  
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, and Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
1996  Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration
   Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalog)
1995  Irrational Landscapes   Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, and the
New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
1994  The Collectors' Show   The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1994  Ten Years, Ten Artists   Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
1994  Dialogues: On and Off the Wall   Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, Garth Clark Gallery, and
Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1994  Landscape not Landscape   Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1994  Contemporary Landscapes   Evans-Gropper-Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993  The Collectors' Show   The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1993  Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA and Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1992  On the Edge: 40 Years of Maine Painting   Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Rockport ME; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)
1991  Darkness into Light   Lintas: Worldwide, New York, NY
1990  Perspectives: Celebrating Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1990  Beyond Black and White: Contemporary Hand-Painted Photographs
The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
1989  Interstices  Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
1989  Vision and Visions: Contemporary Landscape Painting   Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1989  New Work   Dean Velentgas Gallery, Portland, ME
1989  Contemporary Environment   General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT
1989  Landscape of the Spirit   The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (catalog)
1988  40th Anniversary Juried Exhibition   The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
1988  The Face of the Land   Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1988  Fresh Paint   Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1987  Beyond Observation   Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1987  New Artists: The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition
Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH (catalog)
1987  Gallery Invitational   The Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
1987  Six Young Maine Painters   curated by Neil Welliver
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

Awards and Fellowships

2009 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2003-2004 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2000 Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1997 Achievement Award and Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1995/96  Fulbright Fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany
1995 Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1993 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1993 Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy
1990 Residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
1985 Residency and full scholarship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

Selected Public and Museum Collections

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Arthur Andersen & Company, St. Paul, MN
AT & T, New York, NY
Bates College Museum of Art, ME
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Christian Keesee Collection, Oklahoma City, OK
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Exxon Corporation, Irving, TX
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
Memphis Cancer Center, Memphis, TN
Metropolitan Life, New York, NY
Nomura Securities, New York, NY
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
ORYX Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Swiss Re, New York, NY
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
United Talent Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL (catalog)

Education

MFA, University of Pennsylvania, 1986
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1985. Full scholarship.
BA, Smith College, 1981. Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Selected Bibliography

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---. "Laurent and Bell in Black and White." The Maine Times. July 12, 1991.
---. "Two June shows in July." Maine Times. July 16, 1998.
Dawson, Jessica. "Mining the Leaden Skies." review of NAS exhibitions, The Washington Post. March 18, 2004.
Fensterstock, Lauren. "Dozier Bell: New Paintings." Art New England. February/March 2006
Gold, Donna. "Dozier Bell: Spareness of Color, Content Characterize Maine Native's Work." Kennebec Journal. April 6, 1991.
---. "Maine Art Goes to Manhattan." The Maine Times. March 30, 2000.
Grausman, Jennifer. "Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration." Duke University Museum of Art, Exhibition catalog. 1996.
Grimes, Nancy. "Dozier Bell at Schmidt Bingham." ARTnews. Reviews. 1988.
Isaacson, Philip. "Artists' Works Merit Attention." Maine Sunday Telegram. July 14, 1991.
---. "Bell's Layers of Conflict Give Off a Spiritual Intensity." Maine Sunday Telegram. July 19, 1998.
Jacks, Shirley. "A Stunning Collaboration Between Two of Maine's Best." The Greater Old Port Guide and Downtown Arts District. October 12, 1995.
---. "Dozier Bell: The Conflict Series." Art New England. October/November 1998.
Keyes, Bob. "Bell's 'radiant vision' on view at Aucocisco." Maine Sunday Telegram. November 20, 2005.
King, George. Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium. Katonah Museum of Art, Exhibition catalog. 1996.
Koeppel, Fredric. "Vibrant Vision Contrasts with Delicate Darkness." The Commercial Appeal. Art Reviews. April 18, 1991.
Kramer, Hilton. "Painter Dozier Bell Reaches to the Skies and Finds the Divine." The New York Observer. October 4, 2004.
Little, Carl. "Metamorphosis: Four Maine Artists." Art New England. July/August 1990.
---. Dozier Bell: Primary Themes Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Exhibition catalog. 1998.
---. "The Bleak and the Beautiful" Maine Home and Design. April 2009
Lombardi, D. Dominick. "The New Art of Landscape Painting." The Record-Review. August 16, 1996.
Marshall, Laurence A. "Books in Brief." The Sciences. November/December 1996.
Maxwell, Douglas F. Review. Exhibitions. April 15, 2000.
Maxwell, Douglas F. and Young, Dede. Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties. Harn Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalog. 1997.
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Moore, Milton. "Images of the Heavens and earth make a powerful impression at Lyman Allyn exhibit." The Day. May 19, 1998.
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Nelson, James. "Dozier Bell's Small Works a Revelation at the University of Alabama." The Birmingham News. August 16, 2009.
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Page, Ian. "Remote Meditations." The Portland Pheonix. November 25, 2005.
Russell, Jenna. "Obscure Sunshine: Dozier Bell at June Fitzpatrick." The Portland Phoenix. July 28, 2000.
SG, Hermione. "Works on Paper, 2008: Park Avenue Armory NYC" Demos News March 3, 2008.
Smee, Sebastian. "Maine event." The Boston Globe. May 8, 2009.
Struve, William. An American Landscape Collection: Views from the Heartland. Zurich Kemper Investments Collection catalog. 1997.
Tate, Haines Sprunt. "The Double Vision of Bell and Greenleaf." Maine Times. October 24, 1994.
Thompson, Chris. "Warmachines: Dozier Bell at Aucocisco." The Portland Phoenix. November 22, 2002.
WETA, Washington Public Television, "Around Town," NAS exhibition review. May 6, 2004.
Zevitas, Steven. New American Paintings, Number 20: The Fourth Open Studios Northeast Competition. Catalog of winners' work, Wellesley, MA. The Open Studios Press, 1999.
Zimmer, William. "The Spiritual Side of Art." The New York Times. April 2, 1989.